Amidst the crowd, Ji Li exerted all her strength to tiptoe so that Lu Xun could find her more easily.
When their eyes met, Lu Xun discovered that Ji Li seemed to have lost a little weight, the baby fat on her face was still there, but there was a little less when compared to before.
It could be because she was aging gradually or it could be because she suffered quite a lot during her road of cultivation.
Of course, there were some places where she didn’t lose any weight, on the contrary, she was only sixteen, and yet, her body still seemed to be able to mature further, perhaps, some day in the future, it could be taken up a notch.
Speaking of which, some men seemed to have a special partialism for this, it was to the degree of ‘disliking the flat and loving the F[1]’. Lu Xun actually wasn’t so much into that.
Many men would think that they would love lolitas when they see a lolita, and when they see a domineering older sister, they would think they also loved domineering older sisters. Don’t think too much about this, you’re merely a pervert.
After having not seen Ji Li for many days, Lu Xun wanted to have a chat with her.
Because of the friendship they shared along the way, he composed several excuses in his mind in an attempt to explain why he didn’t come and see her, it would also save people from any thoughts about him being untrustworthy.
However, since Ji Li was standing in the middle of the crowd now, if he were to walk over, the surrounding disciples would definitely make way for him. At that time, because a forefather level figure would be mixed amongst the crowd of outer sect disciples, no one would probably feel at ease.
So, he simply waved towards Ji Li and said, “Come over here.”
“Shua…” Ji Li’s small round face immediately blushed.
The outer sect disciples all knew that Little Great Uncle-Master and Ji Li came to the Demon Sect together, they probably already knew each other before, so they quickly made way for her.
Ji Li clenched her teeth and shamelessly walked in quick steps to Lu Xun’s side.
Quite a few female disciples were envying her secretly, strangely, there were also one or two male disciples that cast envious gazes.
Lu Xun was rather natural and unrestrained, he looked at her and teased her, “You wanted to catch me as a Furnace tripod before, now you know how to be shy?”
When he saw that Ji Li didn’t speak, he continued to tease her, “Do you still have that idea now?”
Ji Li looked up at him, her mouth formed the words, “This disciple wouldn’t dare,” however, her gaze desperately avoided his eyes.
The corner of Lu Xun’s mouth twitched, ‘You stinking little sister! You’re actually still thinking about such a thing! You still haven’t given up!?’
‘I’m treating you as a junior, but you’re craving my body…’
‘…You infuriate this Great Uncle-Master!’
Upon seeing that everyone was present, Elder Autumn Water led everyone towards the place of the trial.
Because she was the head of the outer sect elders, her seniority was only one generation lower, she stepped forward to ask Lu Xun, “In a little while, does Little Uncle-Master want to take the field first, or watch first?”
Lu Xun’s status was out of the ordinary, so naturally, he could do whatever he wanted.
Lu Xun lightly smiled, his smile was cordial, he used a not too light nor too heavy of a voice so that everyone was guaranteed to hear him, “I’ll be the first to give everyone a start, it’ll save me from watching on the side, it’s to avoid making everyone nervous.”
His identity was different from everyone else here after all, in addition to the Heart of the Sword he just solidified, the outer sect disciples’ respect for him was in the extreme. The over 2,000 points of prestige value mostly came from these outer sect disciples, most of them who hadn’t seen much of the world.
“Little Great Uncle-Master is too amiable and unassuming!”
“Yes, Little Great Uncle-Master’s pays so much attention to the little things, he’s being considerate of us in all respect.”
Various exchanges in low voices could be heard amongst the disciples. No one would have expected that in a right and proper xianxia world, someone would be shameless enough to forcibly establish a public persona in order to grow prestige value, all of which was in preparation for the route of reeling in fangirls as a male idol.
‘From today on, I’ll be the Demon Sect’s idol!’ Lu Xun thought, ‘Steadily and seriously, I”ll strive to become a pretty boy with a mass following!’
In his eyes, tools could be recycled for use. Thus, prestige value could be reaped continuously wave after wave.
Everyone walked for roughly twenty minutes before they soon arrived at a vacant land.
At the center of this land, a table was set there, the table only had a writing brush that looked very simple and quite normal.
A massive white talisman paper was floating in mid-air at this moment.
Lu Xun looked at the talisman paper first, its basic information appeared before his eyes:
‘An extra-large low-level talisman paper.’
Apart from being relatively large, this talisman paper didn’t have anything peculiar about it, it was the most commonly used low-cost talisman paper.
The key to the trial this time was mainly using the writing brush, it was an extremely ordinary-looking writing brush that Sir once used.
Elder Autumn Water stood by the table, she said in a loud voice, “Sir bought this writing brush from a small town, it’s a brush that was used to write and draw.”
“The details of your trial today is to pick up this brush, write or draw on the large-scale talisman paper, you can write as you wish and draw as you wish. The one who uses the brush for the longest time will be rewarded a Dark Green Pill!”
For the outer sect disciples, pills and elixirs were great things. A single pill could be equivalent to days, or even dozens of days of cultivation for them.
The Dark Green Pill was also considered a pretty good Spirit Pill within the inner sect, so, for the outer sect disciples, it was an absolute treasure in their eyes.
This smear of green[2] was honestly too enticing.
“Give it your best later,” Lu Xun said to Ji Li.
He could tell that Ji Li was already at the third layer of the Qi Devouring Formula, she was one layer higher than where he was at.
As expected of a person with eight ripples, cultivation really was fast for her!
If her aptitude was converted into the game, it would be equal to a perception of eight! If Lu Xun circulated one large Heavenly Cycle per day, he would receive at most 20 points of experience value, once calculated correctly, then it would be 160 points of experience value for Ji Li…
Ten days would be equal to 1,600 points of experience value, it just happened that it was enough to level up from level zero to level three.
Although she was an aboriginal of the lands of Heavenly Earth, it shouldn’t be counted this way. Every seven days, she could receive a Spirit Pill provided by the Demon Sect, this was why her cultivation speed was actually understandable.
Fortunately, he could rely on doing missions and killing monsters to receive a lot of experience…
After Ji Li received Lu Xun’s encouragement, she nodded forcefully.
Dim-witted as she was, she finally discovered that since she stood next to Lu Xun, she automatically became the second person to hold the brush, this was tantamount to being the first outer sect disciple to go on stage.
This made her a little nervous, but it wouldn’t go so far as to give her stage fright. After all, she was an extremely daring person who even harbored improper thoughts about Little Great Uncle-Master.
After seeing that everyone was already prepared, Elder Autumn Water said, “Little Uncle-Master, then… shall we start?”
Lu Xun nodded, and then he slowly walked towards the table in front of him, his back appeared quite relaxed and confident.
The writing brush on the table looked very ordinary, Elder Autumn Water had previously said that Sir bought this from a certain small town.
Upon examining it closely, one could find that this writing brush was not only normal but also extremely cheap, it was probably the cheapest kind of writing brush one could buy at stores.
Lu Xun didn’t rush to set about touching the brush, he instead tried to obtain the writing brush’s basic information.
Since his current level was rather low, the basic information he could obtain was also relatively little. However, perhaps because the writing brush was a mission prop, the basic information that popped out was more comprehensive.
After Lu Xun read the necessary information that he received, he instinctively took a deep breath.
He was still currently a level two alt, and this brush that Sir once used… it was level twenty!
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[1] Pun: 嫌贫爱富, Chinese idiomatic expression for disliking the poor and loving the rich, which the author uses as 嫌贫爱F, the last character in the phrase is simply changed to the bra size
[2] 绿帽子, literally a green colored hat, is a colloquial term for cuckold, here it’s simply a smear of green which alludes to the idea (at the most random time)